Python Engineer Contracts

Python Engineer
UK

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 397 362
Rank change year-on-year +103 -35 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 314 312 640
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.56% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.59% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 251 557
10th Percentile £448 £450 £498
25th Percentile £538 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £688
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +20.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £62.81 - -
25th Percentile £63.28 £56.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £65.63 £57.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% +202.63% -30.91%
75th Percentile £69.53 £58.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £70.94 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +101 277 £700 +12.00% 99
London +118 239 £700 +3.70% 65
Work from Home +79 144 £710 +9.23% 52
UK excluding London +47 56 £550 +10.00% 31
Scotland +52 26 £550 -26.67% 2
North of England +20 8 £500 +1.52% 4
East of England +1 8 £425 -12.82% 7
South East +16 7 £600 +9.09% 5
North West +22 6 £500 -4.76% 2
South West +3 5 £550 +4.76% 6
Midlands +22 2 £550 +10.00% 7
Yorkshire +14 2 £475 -1.04% 1
West Midlands +13 2 £550 +10.00% 4

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Python Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 314 (100.00%) Python
2 179 (57.01%) Software Engineering
3 177 (56.37%) AWS
4 158 (50.32%) Finance
5 142 (45.22%) Agile
6 136 (43.31%) Apache Airflow
7 131 (41.72%) Asset Management
8 129 (41.08%) Banking
9 128 (40.76%) TypeScript
10 127 (40.45%) Front Office
11 123 (39.17%) Fixed Income
11 123 (39.17%) Protocol Buffers
11 123 (39.17%) gRPC
12 120 (38.22%) Apache
13 119 (37.90%) Azure
14 118 (37.58%) Investment Management
15 117 (37.26%) Apache Ignite
16 108 (34.39%) Hedge funds
17 102 (32.48%) GCP
18 90 (28.66%) Artificial Intelligence
19 87 (27.71%) React
20 80 (25.48%) Pandas
20 80 (25.48%) Equities
20 80 (25.48%) Full Stack Development
21 78 (24.84%) Java
22 76 (24.20%) Machine Learning
22 76 (24.20%) Redux
23 73 (23.25%) Material-UI
24 72 (22.93%) PostgreSQL
24 72 (22.93%) NumPy

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 136 (43.31%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (38.22%) Apache
3 5 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.96%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 177 (56.37%) AWS
2 119 (37.90%) Azure
3 102 (32.48%) GCP
4 58 (18.47%) dbt
5 43 (13.69%) Snowflake
6 17 (5.41%) Serverless
7 9 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.55%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.55%) GitHub
9 7 (2.23%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.23%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (1.91%) Dagster
11 5 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.27%) Pulumi
13 3 (0.96%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.59%) SAN
2 4 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (0.96%) Firewall
3 3 (0.96%) NAS
3 3 (0.96%) Wireless
4 2 (0.64%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.64%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.32%) 5G
5 1 (0.32%) BGP
5 1 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.32%) DHCP
5 1 (0.32%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.32%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.32%) MQTT
5 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.32%) WAN
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (37.26%) Apache Ignite
2 72 (22.93%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (17.20%) Amazon Athena
3 54 (17.20%) Dremio
4 52 (16.56%) Apache Arrow
5 44 (14.01%) Data Lake
6 14 (4.46%) Big Data
7 11 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.18%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.23%) Power BI
10 6 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.59%) Sybase ASE
12 4 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.27%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.96%) MySQL
13 3 (0.96%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.64%) DB2
14 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (16.24%) Cypress.io
2 25 (7.96%) Git
3 23 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.59%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.27%) Selenium
5 4 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.96%) Maven
7 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.64%) git-flow
7 2 (0.64%) GitLab
7 2 (0.64%) Gradle
7 2 (0.64%) JUnit
7 2 (0.64%) Subversion
7 2 (0.64%) webpack
8 1 (0.32%) Ant
8 1 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.32%) Pylint
8 1 (0.32%) RStudio
8 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 158 (50.32%) Finance
2 129 (41.08%) Banking
3 127 (40.45%) Front Office
4 49 (15.61%) Investment Banking
5 31 (9.87%) Social Skills
6 20 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (0.96%) Games
8 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.96%) Law
8 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.64%) Electronics
9 2 (0.64%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.32%) Aviation
10 1 (0.32%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.32%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.32%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (39.17%) gRPC
1 123 (39.17%) Protocol Buffers
2 87 (27.71%) React
3 80 (25.48%) Pandas
4 76 (24.20%) Redux
5 73 (23.25%) Material-UI
6 72 (22.93%) NumPy
7 66 (21.02%) SciPy
8 27 (8.60%) PySpark
9 24 (7.64%) Kafka
10 18 (5.73%) AngularJS
11 15 (4.78%) Vue
12 14 (4.46%) Node.js
13 13 (4.14%) REST
14 12 (3.82%) RESTful
15 8 (2.55%) FastAPI
15 8 (2.55%) Flask
15 8 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
16 7 (2.23%) Middleware
17 5 (1.59%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 123 (39.17%) Fixed Income
2 108 (34.39%) Hedge funds
3 80 (25.48%) Equities
4 46 (14.65%) Derivative
4 46 (14.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.46%) Pricing Data
7 13 (4.14%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.18%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (1.59%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.64%) Animation
14 2 (0.64%) Augmented Reality
14 2 (0.64%) Client/Server
14 2 (0.64%) NHS
14 2 (0.64%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.69%) Linux
2 12 (3.82%) Unix
3 10 (3.18%) Windows
4 7 (2.23%) Android
5 6 (1.91%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.64%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (57.01%) Software Engineering
2 142 (45.22%) Agile
3 131 (41.72%) Asset Management
4 118 (37.58%) Investment Management
5 90 (28.66%) Artificial Intelligence
6 80 (25.48%) Full Stack Development
7 76 (24.20%) Machine Learning
8 67 (21.34%) Automated Trading
9 53 (16.88%) DevOps
10 49 (15.61%) CI/CD
11 28 (8.92%) Analytics
12 22 (7.01%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (6.05%) Test Automation
14 18 (5.73%) Data Engineering
14 18 (5.73%) ETL
15 17 (5.41%) Mathematics
15 17 (5.41%) Microservices
16 16 (5.10%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (5.10%) SDLC
17 14 (4.46%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 314 (100.00%) Python
2 128 (40.76%) TypeScript
3 78 (24.84%) Java
4 66 (21.02%) JavaScript
5 56 (17.83%) SQL
6 25 (7.96%) C++
7 22 (7.01%) Perl
8 18 (5.73%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.87%) Scala
10 8 (2.55%) C#
10 8 (2.55%) Go
11 7 (2.23%) Bash
12 5 (1.59%) Rust
13 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.96%) C
14 3 (0.96%) Ruby
15 2 (0.64%) Clojure
15 2 (0.64%) Haskell
15 2 (0.64%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 11 (3.50%) Degree
2 7 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.59%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.64%) PhD
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.32%) CCNP
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.32%) NIST
3 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (8.92%) Docker
2 8 (2.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 8 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.64%) GPFS
3 2 (0.64%) NFS
4 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.32%) iptables
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (14.33%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.64%) Ansible
3 22 (7.01%) Terraform
4 16 (5.10%) Grafana
5 15 (4.78%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.55%) Consul
7 7 (2.23%) Puppet
8 4 (1.27%) Argo
9 3 (0.96%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.64%) BladeLogic
10 2 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.64%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.64%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 69 (21.97%) Google
2 17 (5.41%) Databricks
3 15 (4.78%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.87%) VMware
5 8 (2.55%) SaltStack
5 8 (2.55%) Sybase
6 4 (1.27%) Veritas
7 3 (0.96%) BMC
7 3 (0.96%) IBM
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle
7 3 (0.96%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.64%) Altiris
8 2 (0.64%) Brocade
8 2 (0.64%) Cisco
8 2 (0.64%) Citrix
8 2 (0.64%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.64%) EMC
8 2 (0.64%) NetApp
8 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.64%) Splunk